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The Left is collapsing everywhere

Here's a startling fact: There have been eight leaders of the British Labour Party in the past 40 years. Seven of them failed to win a single general election ...  Read more

Xi Jinping's Version of Democracy

Is there really a Beijing Model of governance: authoritarian politics steering economic growth, diluting the appeal of the West's democracy and freedom? The ruler of China thinks so. He's focused on sticking around and seeing it triumph...  Read more

How Trump's deregulation agenda is shaping energy policy

President Trump is making a long-term mistake by issuing executive orders to roll back and stop regulatory overreach instead of relying on Congress, business groups say...  Read more

Rep. Mark Sanford pushes for REAL ID reform as privacy issues loom

Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., has been an opponent of REAL ID since his tenure as South Carolina's governor...  Read more

Is Trump an isolationist or interventionist?

When President Trump addressed U.S. troops at MacDill Air Force Base last week in Florida, he sounded about as hawkish as you can get, anxious to unleash the full fury of America's military to end the scourge of radical Islamic terrorism...  Read more

Democrats set optimistic goals after 2016 'autopsy'

House Democrats set an optimistic goal this week of storming back and retaking the House next year, through a combination of new messaging and targeting districts in the country where Democrats hope they have become more competitive...  Read more

Kushner Leading Government IT Task Force in White House 'Think Tank'

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has spoken and…it will not lift the temporary restraining order on President Trump's travel restriction executive order...  Read more

Kellyanne Conway's lengthening gaffe track

White House officials have been forced to spend time and energy defending one of their own over the past three weeks as Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, committed a string of headline-grabbing gaffes that have created distractions for the fledgling administration...  Read more

Senate confirms Price as HHS secretary

The Senate early Friday morning narrowly confirmed Rep. Tom Price to serve as the next secretary of Health and Human Services...  Read more

Court's rejection of immigration ban raises stakes for Gorsuch

The 9th Circuit decision to reject President Trump's ban on immigration and travel from seven majority-Muslim countries has ratcheted up the pressure on the Senate and its consideration of Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court...  Read more

The Patriots Just Made Parenting Harder

I don't know about you, but I'm still recovering from Sunday night...  Read more

White House Agenda Stalls as Cabinet Confirmations Trickle Through

At 10:30 Thursday morning, Jeff Sessions will officially be sworn in as attorney general of the United States...  Read more

Republicans united under Trump, but trade threatens to divide the party

President Trump's trade agenda threatens to divide Republicans, two prominent conservatives said in an interview with the Washington Examiner's weekly podcast...  Read more

Trump's tough stance on Iran could leave hostages stranded

The Trump administration's get-tough approach to Iran, including an executive order putting a halt to travelers and immigrants coming from that country along with six other Muslim-majority nations, has Democratic critics even more worried about the fate of American citizens and others with strong U.S. ties imprisoned in Iran...  Read more

Congress, make oversight great again

Democrats are going to spend the next four years as if their job is to #Resist President Trump in all he does. That's a shame (and shame on them) but it doesn't mean Republicans should spend the next four years asking, "how high?" when Trump says "Jump!"...  Read more

Warren Breaks Senate Rule, Prohibited From Debating Sessions Nomination

For the remainder of Tuesday night and for most of Wednesday, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren is prohibited from debating on the floor of the Senate...  Read more

Senate Democrats allowed to read Coretta Scott King's letter on Senate floor

Sen. Tom Udall on Wednesday was allowed to read Coretta Scott King's letter critiquing Sen. Jeff Sessions, less than 24 hours after colleague Sen. Elizabeth Warren was banned from doing...  Read more

Liberal groups file lawsuit to block Trump's deregulation order

Liberal groups sued President Trump on Wednesday over his "two-for-one" executive order issued last week that requires agencies to kill two existing regulations for every new rule they...  Read more